[Commlist] Press Ethics and Media Freedom: One Day Symposium Call for Papers

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for a one-day symposium 
on Press Ethics and Media Freedom at the St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride 
Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ, 8^th June 2022.

This one-day multi-disciplinary (in-person) symposium seeks to explore 
the changing ethical and regulatory parameters of journalistic practice 
and its relationship with the concept of media freedom. We invite 
contributions from across disciplinary areas in order to challenge 
conventional perspectives pertaining to press freedom and its 
entanglement with contemporary media and civil contexts and problems.

We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for papers from 
scholars and practitioners engaged in participatory research methods or 
other innovative co-production strategies working within the theme of 
the symposium. We are also keen to showcase research grappling with 
journalism ethics within the digital media environment and the 
challenges raised by contemporary social and political disruptions.

Papers are welcome on the broad theme of the symposium, though topics of 
particular interest to the conference organisers include:

Participatory approaches to normative media ethics

Comparative media regulation and law

Ethics and the Practice of Journalism

Media literacy and ethics

Interdisciplinary perspectives on media ethics

Ethics and media policy

Populism and new media ethics

Cross cultural and/or cross-national studies on media ethics

Ethics in Local/Regional journalism

Civic journalism ethics

Public Deliberation and normative ethics in journalism

Professional identity and the ethical role of the journalist

The symposium will also present findings from a UKRI funded project 
entitled ‘Defining Freedom of the Press’ which is a multidisciplinary 
project exploring press ethics and regulation across a number of 
European countries and the UK. This project examines journalist, 
regulator and non-journalist stakeholders’ perspectives on press ethics 
and regulation. We are particularly keen to receive proposals for papers 
from PGR students and from community-based organisations with an 
interest in press ethics and journalism.

In addition, the symposium will screen a documentary film which has been 
made as part of the project as well as host an exhibition on the topic 
of ‘freedom of the press’, all at taking place at the St. Bride 
Foundation in London.

A selection of papers given at the symposium will be invited to submit 
to a proposed special edited collection of papers.

Keynote speakers to be announced in due course.

Participation and attendance at the conference and exhibition will be free.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Professor 
John Steel ((j.steel /at/ derby.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.steel /at/ derby.ac.uk)>) by 29 
April, 2022.

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